add existing passwords to /etc/shadow

jwholey · 06-20-2006, 02:50 PM

I'm looking for a ksh script that will insert an encrpyted password into the /etc/shadow on a new server.
I can extract the encrypted password from the /etc/shadow on another server, but I'm having problems inserting it between the first and second colon ":".
But even before I do that, I need to remove what is already beween the first and second colon (

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(colon).
I can't be the first person to do this. thx.

acid_kewpie · 06-20-2006, 03:46 PM

do you just mean that you are having problems understanding how to use your text editor of choice? which editor are you using?

jwholey · 06-21-2006, 07:20 AM

No... not a problem with the text editor... it's vi. I have to add about 75 users... and a manual effort is not the way to go. I figured someone had done this before and had a quick and dirty sed/awk/ksh script to do the insertion. Haven't gotten much feedback. I guess I'll just re-invent the wheel and write it myself.

acid_kewpie · 06-21-2006, 07:47 AM

ahh ok, you sounded like this was just a one off thing, not a large number of connections. seems easy enough with abit of sed and awk, but i'm sure you're also aware of that really... if you post a sample of both files, i'll have a go....